Dear Editor,

Could you please furnish me with the contact details of the person who successfully managed to have the lovely flowers removed from the small ’traffic island’ between Goodrich and Whitchurch as reported in last week’s Gazette.

I would like this person to use their power and influence to have other places reduced to just a mound of unsightly soil. Can we start with the beautiful docks, nettles, thistles and grass growing to a height of around a metre on the roundabout on the Ross bypass (A40) half way between the Hilldersley and Labels roundabouts. Then go to the approach to Pencraig from the Ross direction and remove the lovely overgrown verge before the parking layby (where the speed camera vehicle can sit unseen) This area used to be left purposely by the verge cutters to assist the speed enforcers, or am I being cynical? For the last two years I have cut back this growth myself as I feel it is more dangerous to have a slow moving HGV to pull out from the layby into fast moving traffic which is unseen because of the uncut verge.

We could then go down to Whitchurch and cut the lovely long grass and weeds from the junctions around the cafe at the A40/A4137/B4229 road junction. Vision is seriously impaired if you happen to drive anything lower than a double decker bus. And just to complete the job let’s finish off at the roundabout at Hilldersley close to the old Wolf Tools site and take out those horrible begonias and other bright coloured flowers which must be far too tall and impede vision to most drivers using that road!

No doubt readers will know of other places around Ross which need to be ’improved’. Nothing like the look of a good patch of bare ground to welcome visitors and cheer up locals on their daily commute.

Mick Cordell

Ruardean